The Pearl
2. what is the significance of the careful preparation of kino an his family for the excursion into the city?
Question 3."and in four hundred years kino's people had learned only one defense-a slight slitting of the eyes an a slight tightening of the lips and a retirement.nothing could break down this wall, an they could remain whole within the wal."
oppressed an downtrodden for centuries, it was yet the purpose of these people to survive. what characteristics had enabled them to do so?